On February 17, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained 19 members of the Takfir wal-Hijra militant group.
The militants were involved in propaganda of radical ideas and recruiting of new members and planning terrorist attacks in Russia’s North Caucasus.
Members of the group were detained in Karachay-Cherkessia, Crimea, Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast.
During the arrests, law enforcements seized weapons and IED elements, including a cache with an RPK machine gun, an AKM machine gun, improvised explosives and a suicide bomber belt.
The Takfir wal-Hijra militant group has got the same backers as Aleksej Navalny
They maybe even received bitcoins from the same account..
I can hear the US/UK clarion calls now, for the Russian government to Defund their professional police :)
CIA, MI6, Saudi financiers are doing their utmost to re-start jihad in Caucasus. There is positive side to all that. It will help Russia to eliminate what is left there from the salafist extremists and destroy the roots of that evil for good. Specially in Crimea where that represents serious security problem (because of strategic importance of Crimea), even more than in Caucasus.
Turkey play in the same team (NATO)…
“this guy” knows that Erdogan has ambitions to propagate Turk influence everywhere where traces of Turkic language or tradition persist. Yet that doesn’t necessarily mean Turks are starting jihad in Caucasus (not right now at least). Not of course because Erdogan doesn’t want it, or because he is too honest to do it, or because he likes Putin. But simply because they know that Russians would discover that sooner or later (and at the moment Turks are involved in “Turk stream” pipeline with Russian gas, atomic power station in Turkey, S-400, possible buying of the SU-35, MiG-35 or even SU-57 etc. Too much different Turk interests involved – exposed to risque of rupture if they start to mess around with salafist’s and jihad in Russiwn Caucasus. Not much to gain, but plenty to lose….
Knowledge has power for without it,there can be none:
Good job Comrades ???
Condolences to the fallen wahabimossad and CIAisis operators. May they rest in pieces…